Combined plow-foot and scraper.



Patented Oct. 28, 1902.

' c. c. DARNELL.

COMBINED PLOW FOOT AND SGRAPER (Application filed Jinie 4, 1902.

(No Model.)

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5 a M a H i 1 t M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARTER CLAYTON DARNELL, OF ASHLAND, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO O. O. NEAL, OF ASHLAND, GEORGIA.

COMBINED PLOW-FOOT AND SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,362, dated October 28, 1902.

7 Application filed June 4:, 1902.

To (I/ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARTER CLAYTON DAR- NELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Franklin and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements. in a Combined Plow-Foot and Scraper; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in plow-foot and scraper attachments; and it consists in means whereby the plow-foot may be adjustably held to the beam and in the provision of scrapers, one on either side of the foot, held byindependentadjustingbolts and so arranged that the scraper may be held at different angles in a horizontal plane and each independent of the other, whereby one scraper may be held at an angle to the plane and the other horizontally or in different positions, as may be desired for various uses to which it is desired to put the invention.

The invention consists, further, in various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved plow-foot and scraper. Fig. 2 is a detail View showing the manner of adjusting the scrapers.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a plowbeam of ordinary construction, and B a plowfoot, made, preferably, of metal and bent upon itself at its middle portion, which forms the lower part of the foot, and the two arms B are pivotally held to the plow-beam by means of the bolt 0, passing through the arms and beam. The bolt 0', which passes through the ends of the bar of metal forming SerialNo. 110,206. (No model.)

the foot, may be held in any one of the several apertures in said ends, whereby the foot may be tilted and held in an adjusted relation with reference to the beam, the other bolt serving as apivotal bar on which the foot tilts when being adjusted. Near the rear edge of the foot are elongated slots D, which are formed in the two portions of the foot, which is bent as shown, and are in registration. The lower margins of said apertures extend to locations near the lowest part of the shoe, and in each aperture is an adjusting bolt E, the head of which bears against the inner wall of the foot, and the bolt proper extends through the aperture and also through an aperture in a scraper F. There are two of these scrapers, similarly constructed, arranged one on each side of the foot, and each is heldin a similar manner to the foot by means of an adj ustingbolt, having a threaded nut on the end thereof. Said scrapers are preferably bent'at an angle, and the inner end of each scraper is perforated, as at F, and G designates an adjusting pin or screw which is adapted to pass through said aperture F and engage in one or another of the several perforations H, which are formed in said foot in the two portions which are parallel to each other. The purpose of these perforations H is to allow the pin or screw G to be placed in one or another of the same when it is desired to hold the scraper at any particular angle. For instance, if it is desired to hold the scraper in a horizontal position said pin will be placed in one of the perforations adjacent to the elongated slot in which the adj usting-bolt is held. If it is desired to adjust the scraper at antinclination to a horizontal plane, the pin F may be held in one of the other apertures, accordingly as may be desired.

From the foregoing it will be observed that by my improved foot-scraper I am enabled to adjust the scraper at varying angles andeach independent of the other, whereby scrapers may be used for different purposes, as for covering up, cutting weeds, duo.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a plow-beam, a foot B having a substantially horizontal portion, a

pivotal pin carried by the beam and on which and passing through the same and through the same is mounted, the ends of said foot the inner angled portion of the scraper, and 15 being rounded and having vertical adjusting a nut on the end thereof and adapted to coapertures, a bolt passing through the beam operate with the inner end of the scraper,

5 and one of said apertures, elongated slots whereby the scraper maybe adjusted and seformed in the shank portion of the foot near curely held at various angles, as set forth.

its bent portion and at one side of the longi- In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my 20 tudinal center, said foot having perforations signature in presence of two witnesses. lntermedlate said slots and the edge of the CARTER CLAYTON DARNELL.

[0 foot, angled scrapers, an adjusting-pin passing through the inner end of one of said Witnesses: scrapers and engaging one of said perfora W. D. VVILLIFORD, tions, and a bolt held in each of said slots, E. G. BROOK. 

